The white trash menace and hemispheric fiction / Ramón E. Soto-Crespo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soto-Crespo, Ramón E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish American fiction.

Poor white people in literature.

Latin American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Latin American fiction.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Working class white people in literature.

White people in literature.

Comparative literature--Latin American and American.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--American and Latin American.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 195 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Traces the transnational circulation of white trash characters and fiction in pulp fiction and canonical literatures of the Americas"-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: White trash, decapitalization, and literary circulation

Faulkner's "Porto Rico": circulation, white trash, and the Caribbean

Circum-Atlantic trash: despised forms and postwar Caribbean fiction

Trash travels: white cockroaches in circum-Atlantic literature

Archipelagoes of white debt: intentured trash in circum-Atlantic fiction

Hemispheric trash: a cultural paradox

Appendix: Writers of trash fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index.

ISBN:

9780814214213

0814214215

9780814255681

081425568X

OCLC:

1114474221